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Is this a good summery of what backbiting is :"Backbiting (Gheebah الغيبة) is telling about someone what he/she would not like to be known, to the public. Backbiting is forbidden in Islam."

yasar11732

@AlUmmat I think it is.

Al Ummat

7:51 PM

can anyone see this page islam.stackexchange.com/review\

yasar11732

@AlUmmat I can see the page, but I can't see anything waiting for review.

Al Ummat

hmm.. well I just wanted to ask

yasar11732

@AlUmmat can't you see the page?

Al Ummat

yes

Al Ummat

8:07 PM

what would you call the sections of the Qur'an in english?

yasar11732

ayat, surah, juz ?

Al Ummat

Yes, Ayah, Surat Hizb, Juz, Manzal, what are all those called in english? not each one but all of them.

@YasserZamani Asalamu wa alaikum

yasar11732

I think transliterations are fun.

Al Ummat

@yasar11732 what do you mean?

Yasser Zamani

@AlUmmat, Hi :)

yasar11732

8:11 PM

I was thinking something else while writing that, I meant to say "I think transliterations are fine."

Al Ummat

@YasserZamani how are you?

yasar11732

we don't need to use English translations.

Yasser Zamani

@AlUmmat, I'm fine,tnnx, sorry now I should sign out, see you later guys

Al Ummat

@yasar11732 I just want to know just in case someone asks me, oh by the way do you know what a Manzil much it is?

@YasserZamani salaam wa alaikum good bye

yasar11732

@AlUmmat I don't know what Manzil means.

Al Ummat

8:15 PM

It means home, but here it means the coming down

Al Ummat

8:50 PM

A question, would our community have a newsletter?

goldPseudo

10:08 PM

"ayah" and "surah" roughly translate to "verse" and "chapter" in the context of Qur'an.

Al Ummat

question, would our community have a newsletter?

goldPseudo

hizb, juz and manzil don't really have a common translation that i know of. i would pretty much translate them all as "section" or "part".

Al Ummat

@goldPseudo thank you

goldPseudo

i don't know about a newsletter, but if we get enough knowledgeable people who can write well, we might want to consider a blog.

Blog - Stack Exchange: Blog Overflow

Rebecca Chernoff on June 23, 2011

Every Stack Exchange site starts with a Q&A site, made up of three pieces that help bring the whole community together:

bicycles.stackexchange.com, the main Q&A site

meta.bicycles.stackexchange.com, questions about community and administrative matters

chat.bicycles.stackexchange.com, the third place for real-time collaborations

But wait, there’s more?

A couple months ago, the Super User community took it upon themselves to create a blog run by the community. This effort has been so successful that a couple other communities floated the idea amongst themselves. Internally, we recognize …

Al Ummat

I would love to contribute to this

goldPseudo

10:14 PM

but i wouldn't worry about that for right now, it can wait until after we've gone public and have a lot of people who are willing to contribute.

we don't want to have only one or two "big" contributors doing most or all of the work.

Al Ummat

yes we just have to ask, of course

I have a question about chat rooms, if you are a owner of a chat room can you delete it?

goldPseudo

i don't think so. i think they just auto-delete if they're not used for a week.

Al Ummat

ok

Al Ummat

10:32 PM

we only have 180 commiters here in the privet beta.

goldPseudo

127 total users.

out of 222 committers.

Al Ummat

very little

goldPseudo

i'm not sure if that's normal for a private beta or not.

a lot of the committers would've been early adopters, back when the site was first proposed over a year ago.

so they may not even be paying attention right now.

Al Ummat

weren't email with links sent?

goldPseudo

yes.

Al Ummat

10:37 PM

well ok

goldPseudo

it's possible they're busy with other sites now, or even that they don't check their email.

Al Ummat

yes that maybe it

goldPseudo

or perhaps they just don't have any good questions to ask because we've asked them all, so they're trying to come up with their own.

Al Ummat

:P

goldPseudo

i wouldn't worry about it too much. we've got a pretty good group of active users here right now.

Al Ummat

10:39 PM

Alhhamdulillah

goldPseudo

i'm working on an answer to this question right now

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Q: What are the practical within the Earth advantages to being a Muslim?

[The answer is critical for me and really I need help] For years I almost had Mumin/Believer's signs cited in Quran. But after a while I found out that this makes the life for me hard and for others easy. I had to decide if I can do X or Y. I had to have stress to keep God satisfied. I had to fo...

Al Ummat

i found it very easy, but very hard to answer if you know what i mean

goldPseudo

yeah, i know what you mean.

Al Ummat

Alhamdulillah

goldPseudo

i'm answering as much because i think i can help the questioner, as i am because i'm curious if i'll get downvoted just for quoting the Bible. :)

Al Ummat

10:46 PM

i usually do not like being downvoted but i have learned

goldPseudo

i don't think anyone likes it. just have to take disagreements in stride.

Al Ummat

yes

goldPseudo

11:29 PM

this is a very difficult question to answer correctly.

Al Ummat

I suggest to take time to take it in

goldPseudo

oh i am.

Al Ummat

for the quality of the answer and usefulness

goldPseudo

the correct answer fundamentally revolves around "A people asked such [questions] before you; then they became thereby disbelievers." (5:102), but that's the cause of his problem rather than the solution to his problem.

going back and unlearning everything you know is hardly recommended.

HaLaBi

11:53 PM

Salam Alaykum everyone

الامة.. يازلمة ضحكتني.. على موضوع التصفير بعد المغرب... ذكرتني بستي الله يرحمها

goldPseudo

wa 'alaykum assalaam

HaLaBi

how are you brother

goldPseudo

not bad. just mudding my brain through a complicated answer.

HaLaBi

for which question?

goldPseudo

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Q: What are the practical within the Earth advantages to being a Muslim?

[The answer is critical for me and really I need help] For years I almost had Mumin/Believer's signs cited in Quran. But after a while I found out that this makes the life for me hard and for others easy. I had to decide if I can do X or Y. I had to have stress to keep God satisfied. I had to fo...

liberal secular

HaLaBi

11:56 PM

thats a hard one.. God help you bro

Al Ummat

@HaLaBi و عليكم سلام كيف ذكرتك بستك؟

HaLaBi

كانت تخوفني وانا صغير عشان ما اخرج الشارع في الليل.. كانت تقول الصوت في الليل يجيب الشياطين

Al Ummat

:)

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